# Prime minister Giorgia Meloni is set to become Italy’s longest-serving leader since World War Two, marking an unusual period of political stability. Her government has lasted nearly four years in a country known for frequent changes of administration. Meloni has benefited from a disciplined coalition and falling unemployment, while investors have welcomed her focus […]
# Nepal’s rescue teams, helped by Chinese and Indian experts, stepped up efforts today to reach hundreds of people believed to be stuck inside blocked hydropower project tunnels in the aftermath of the floods. It killed more than 900 people and nearly five-thousand are stil missing, carving a trail of destruction in the country’s valley […]
# Soek- en reddingsoperasies in die Middellandse See duur voort nadat ‘n passasiersveerboot Sondag tussen Noord-Ciprus en Turkye omgeslaan het. Agt mense is dood. Amptenare sê daar was 259 passasiers en agt bemanningslede op die veerboot wat water begin inneem het na sy vertrek uit die kusdorp Kyrenia in Ciprus. Tot dusver is 241 mense […]
# Search and rescue operations are continuing in the Mediterranean Sea after a passenger ferry capsized while travelling from northern Cyprus to Turkey on Sunday, killing eight people. According to officials, the ferry had been carrying 259 passengers and eight crew members when it began taking on water after departing the coastal town of Kyrenia in […]
# Die Ford Motor-maatskappy in Suid-Afrika het aangekondig dat hy twee-duisend-275 dubbelkajuit-bakkies wat in 2026–2027 vervaardig, en tussen 22 Mei en 23 Junie vanjaar verkoop is, herroep. Dit volg nadat ʼn moontlike probleem met die voertuie se sygordyn-lugsakstelsel geïdentifiseer is. Dit is ook van toepassing op voertuie wat na Namibië, Botswana, Lesotho en Eswatini uitgevoer […]
# Minstens 15 mense word vermis ná ʼn onverwagse oorstroming gister in die Grand Canyon Nasionale Park in Arizona. Twee-en-sestig stappers en kampeerders is per helikopter na veiligheid geneem. Die Nasionale Park-diens waarsku donderstorms en swaar reën word ook vir vandag voorspel, wat tot nog kitsvloede, rommel, rotsstortings en veranderde voetslaanpad- en riviertoestande kan lei. […]
# Ford Motor Company of South Africa has announced the recall of two-thousand-275 double-cab bakkies produced for the 2026–2027 production year and sold between May 22nd, and June 23rd this year. This follows the identification of a potential problem with the vehicles’ side-curtain airbag system. Vehicles included in the recall were also exported to Namibia, […]
